NFL Trade Deadline 2016: Latest on Potential Joe Thomas and Joe Staley Moves

The NFL trade deadline doesn’t connote the same fervor as those of the three other major professional sports. Major trades are something of a rarity; usually the best we get are a couple mid-level players switching teams for depth purposes.

And on the rare occasion we do see a big name get moved, it rarely works out. Roy Williams, Carson Palmer and Trent Richardson stand out among players traded during the regular season in recent years. Each of those deals look like pilferings for the team that moved their incumbent star in retrospect. 

Perhaps only the Seattle Seahawks, who acquired Marshawn Lynch from the Buffalo Bills in 2010, had their deal work out in a big way. (It’s worth noting that Lynch was reaching near-bust status when that trade transpired.)

So, as always: Bet on absolutely nothing happening at this year’s deadline. But there are nonetheless a pair of elite offensive tackles making waves as we head toward the Nov. 1 cut off.

Browns Eager to Move Joe Thomas, Price Lowering?

Joe Thomas might be a saint. There is no other way a human being could handle being a Cleveland Brown for a decade. Being a Detroit Lion drove Calvin Johnson out of football after nine years, and they even made the playoffs twice.

Thomas, who turns 32 in December, has not been part of a .500 football team since his rookie season. He’s played for six head coaches, shuffled through offensive coordinators like playing cards and never once thrown a public tantrum. As a nine-time Pro Bowler and eight-time All-Pro who has at times been the only competent player on his own offense, it has to have been a little trying.

The closest we’ve gotten to Thomas criticizing management is him bemoaning the loss of talented young players, per Mary Kay Cabot of Cleveland.com:

That’s one of the …

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